Yukon

Yukon [ˈjuːkɒn]

n

(Placename) the. a territory of NW Canada, on the Beaufort Sea, between the Northwest Territories and Alaska: arctic and mountainous, reaching 6050 m (19 850 ft.) at Mount Logan, Canada's highest peak; mineral resources. Capital: Whitehorse. Pop.: 29 900 (2001 est.). Area: 536 327 sq. km (207 076 sq. miles) Abbreviation YT

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Yukon - a North American river that flows westward from the Yukon Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea Yukon River Canada - a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada; "the border between the United States and Canada is the longest unguarded border in the world" U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
	2.	Yukon - a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s Yukon Territory Canada - a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada; "the border between the United States and Canada is the longest unguarded border in the world" Dawson - a town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River; a boom town around 1900 when gold was discovered in the Klondike Klondike - a region in northwestern Canada where gold was discovered in 1896 but exhausted by 1910 Whitehorse - the provincial capital of the Yukon Territory Logan, Mount Logan - a mountain peak in the St. Elias Range in the southwestern Yukon Territory in Canada (19,850 feet high) St. Elias Mountains, St. Elias Range - a range of mountains between Alaska and the Yukon territory